Button-fastener



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UNITED STATES PAT NT ()FFICE.

ALEXANDER G. WILKINS, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,941, dated October 31, 1882.

Application filed August 28. 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LALEXANDER Gr. WIL- KINS, of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button- Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear, full, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a button secured by my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the same. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are details.

My invention relates to devices for securing buttons on shoes and other similar articles; and it consists of the combination of elements hereinafter described and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents a button secured to the strip of leather B. The wire or metal pin G is provided with the flat head a and point I), and D is a washer,countersunk as shown in Fig. 2, through which the pin is passed before being passed through the leather or other material, as shown in Fig. 2. After the pin 0 has been passed through the washer and through the material to which the button is to be attached the point 12 is passed through the eye of the button and pressed into a loop or ring completely encircling the metal of the eye and securing the button in position, as shown in Fig. 1.

I am aware that it is not new to pass a headed pin or tack through the material and engage the pointwith the eye of a button; but

such a fastener is objectionable, as when the button is twisted or turned the solid head of the fastener engages with the soft surfaces of the leather or other materiahand the result is the button is soon twisted ofit. My invention overcomes this difficulty, as by the use of the plate or washer D next the leather I furnish a metal surface with which the head 0. comes in contact, and thus I swivel the fastener and protect the button against all danger of being 

